Advanced Wreck — USCGC Duane

Wed, Sep 16 · 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

A second sailing to the Duane. AOW + Deep + nitrox required.

The day

Best with recent experience

Horse-eye jack

Bluestriped grunt

3 species

Goliath grouper
Enormous and unbothered, usually parked under a ledge or in a wreck's shadow.
Give it room and never block its way out from under an overhang.
Horse-eye jack
Big-eyed silver jacks that roll past in tight, fast schools.
Watch the blue over the wreck for a wall of them rather than scanning the deck.
Bluestriped grunt
Yellow flanks ruled with electric blue lines, in loose crowds under ledges.
Look into the shade under overhangs. A whole school can sit out the day there.

Best with recent experience

Descend the mooring to the deck, tour the superstructure and gun mounts, then ascend on reserve gas with a safety stop.

Can run strong on the surface; the crew calls the line and the drop.

Landmarks

Wheelhouse · Wreck featureOpen, recognisable, and usually holding the resident grouper. Approach along the deck, not from above.
Forward gun mount · Wreck featureStill trained out over the bow, and the picture everybody comes up with.
Crow's nest · Wreck featureThe shallowest point at about 18 m — where the safety stop happens on a good day.

Breezy

The crew confirms conditions and makes the final call at the dock. Forecast by Open-Meteo

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